Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

Any of you older photographers (like me), who had a bunch of 35mm slides, convert them to digital for the computer? If so, how did you do it?
Thanks for any advice.

ggiaphotos Loc: Iowa

http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-60-1.html

That is a discussion on this site. If you go to search and type in 'convert slides to digital' there are other options too. Hope this helps

90healy

I think I can solve your problem. As a 90 year old photographer with 4000 35mm slides, I needed to get them on CDs . I purchased a stand alone V 300 Epson color scanner for $100 that scans four slides per scan and working full time, scanned the 4000 in two weeks. Using Google'sPICASA FREE photo software, edited each slide and loaded them onto CDs at a cost of quarter of a cent per slide . Once I finished, I sold the scanner for $50. Will provide you with more details if needed

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

Thank you, I did the search (as you suggested). Found a little information.

les_stockton Loc: Eastern Oklahoma

I bought a Canon (Canoscan) scanner, that scans negatives (and slides) or prints. It has a standard glass face that you can lay prints on top of to capture, but it also has sleeves that you can load slides into and sleeves for negatives. If you scan the negatives, the software will process them into an image that would be like the print of the negative. If slides, it scans a great digital copy of the slide.
I know what I have isn't as good as some of the high dollar scanners, but this one works pretty good. I don't remember exactly what I paid for it, but I'm pretty sure it was less than $200.

Robert Graybeal Loc: Myrtle Beach

90healy: I think it is great that you are still active. Thanks for the information, I'll check into that. I wonder if the person you sold it to for half price would sell it to me for half price. hahaha
les stockton: I looked at a Canoscan on the internet, but it didn't say for slides. I will go to the store where I have a live person to review with.
Thank you everyone for all the help.

les_stockton Loc: Eastern Oklahoma

The model I have does slides and negatives. I've many of both.

Julian Loc: Sarasota, FL

The Epson 4180 PHOTO is also a good choice to copy 4 slides at a time. It will also handle negative and color 120 film.

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

I use a Canon Canonscan 9000F and you can see a review here:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/SCAN/CS9000/9000F.HTM

I'm attaching an example of a slide converted to digital. The original photo was taken in 1965 with a Yashica camera that I no longer have..

HOHIMER

Is it necessary to de-mount slides to scan them?
Over the years I have tried to scan my mounted slides with various scanners but they all seem to not be able to produce sharp/clear results.

GARGLEBLASTER Loc: Spain

With my scanner it is not necessary to de-mount the slides. I have given an example of one slide I converted. Is that not sharp enough?

les_stockton Loc: Eastern Oklahoma

My scanner (Canoscan) also does not require de-mounting the slides.

renomike Loc: Reno, Nevada

Hi Robert .... I'm doing that right now. I use a Canon Canoscan 8800F flatbed scanner. It has an adapter for holding 4 slides at a time, it also has two other adapters for orther types of film negatives. I think the software they use is exceptional in my estimation. There are several things you can do after previewing the four slides, and they are all optional. Just click on the option, and it shows you what that does in the preview of the slides. The Image Settings are Auto Tone, Unsharp Mask, Remove Dust & Scratches, Fading correction, Grain Correction, and Back Light Correction. The scan DPI you can set run from 50 to 9600. It also does a great job on prints also. Say one slides is dark, and the others well exposed, check the box under the dark slide, play with the image settings, find one you like, you can scan just that one slide, then uncheck that box, check the other good exposed slides, and scan the other three, with no corrections. After scanning I load the slide into a photo software, and make any correction I think it needs.

There are many other things and options for the scanner, way too much to go into here. I hope that helped some. Any questions, just give me a holler..... Mike

Here's a scan straight from the scanner of my wife and daughter, taken in 1970. Nothing else done to it. Other than a few dirt, dust spots, and cropping, that I needed to do to it. With scanners you get what you pay for, so buy the best you can afford, you won't regret it.

les_stockton Loc: Eastern Oklahoma

I wouldn't remember the exact model I have, but I'm pretty sure I have this same scanner. It does a great job and it's not that expensive for what it does.

renomike Loc: Reno, Nevada

I think mine was about $200.00, but I'm not positive. Mine gets a work out all the time..... I love it.